TV

Wednesday 16th August 2017 I’ve had a day where an unintentional slight that actually worked in my favour really bothered me. I turned up to training tonight thinking I was going to be teaching to find I wasn’t. That in itself doesn’t bother me. I always said I would teach for a 6 month block [...]

Thursday 27th July 2017 I was feeling so exhausted today that part of me wanted to postpone cake club tonight. But given that I’d already pushed it back a week due to tournament prep, plus I need to get back into a writing frame of mind, I went and am glad I did. We really [...]

Tuesday 25th July 2017 I still feel shattered today. I am awake and alert but my body has a weariness that goes down to my bones. As a result, I didn’t jump back into the edits tonight, instead catching up on Game of Thrones (I’m several seasons behind). If Leggedon taught me anything, it’s to [...]

Friday 7th July 2017 I continued to keep away from people today. Following Wednesday night’s panic attack, I’ve seen my low turn into anger. Mainly because it could have been avoided. I’ve got a pretty thick skin and people can be pretty blunt around me, but having a go at me when I’m in an [...]

Friday 2nd June 2017 I’ve heard it said that jetlag doesn’t hit you for a couple of days after returning, and that would seem to be the case because today I’ve been absolutely floored. I’ve always been pretty lucky. I usually opt to take a red-eye and try to sleep when flying back from North [...]

Blogging just seems to be one of those things that has got away from me this year. Whilst I’ve sometimes taken the lazy man’s option of posting an image to Instagram, I’ve not been as good as I was last year with monthly updates. Ironically, it’s because I’ve been so busy that I’ve not been [...]

So I have returned home to a week I have just blocked out as “comedown”. I’m tired, jetlagged and missing new friends I made on the trip. However, something exciting got announced yesterday that I’ve been keeping quiet for a couple of weeks… I’m on a jury for the British Fantasy Awards, specifically the jury [...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2OtHEt7Qk4 My absolute favourite TV programme isn’t on television. You can’t even buy it on DVD or Blu-Ray. Instead it is bought and downloaded over the web. Some of you may remember some years ago that there was a Discovery TV series called Storm Chasers. This followed the exploits of three chase teams as they [...]

Last weekend was my one week in three when I wasn’t on out of hours support with the day job, so you’d think it would mean for a lazy Sunday. Maybe it was being woken by my housemates at 5:30am (I love them but, by God, I don’t think they’d know what quiet is if [...]

I’ll readily admit that my Doctor Who fandom only stretches back to Ecclestone. Actually, that’s not strictly true. As a child I have fleeting recollections of hiding behind the sofa when Tom Baker’s Doctor was on the television. I remember him falling from a pylon or something similar and regenerating into Peter Davidson. I never [...]